This course is structured around three studio areas: painting, fine art media, and sculpture, with an integrated critical studies component. All studio staff, as well as those teaching the critical studies component, is practicing artists and scholars with significant exhibition and public profiles. Our students also benefit from London's vast cultural resources. The BFA is studio-based, with an emphasis on a self-initiated programme of work. This is supported by one-to-one and group tutorials, cross-area seminars and area seminars, contemporary art lectures and the critical studies programme. Technical inductions, workshops and one-to-one technical instruction are provided according to each student's academic needs. The programme aims to: develop the individual visual intelligence you bring with you to the school; develop your critical awareness and understanding of fine art and its contexts; and provide the intellectual and practical resources to enable you to realize your creative potential as a professional artist. Most Slade graduates become professional artists but you will leave UCL with a range of skills to branch out into a variety of careers. You will have built up practical, transferable and academic skills and these, alongside any experience you may have gained outside your degree, will widen your career options.